If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that our audience really digs police vehicles.

I have no idea why as these are vehicles that enthusiasts are typically trying to stay away from. But, I digress.

Our friends to the north in Canada have decided to do something very Dubai-like. That’s because the Ontario Police Department have decided to add something with a bit more panache to its fleet.

That would be an all-new Tesla Model X.

According to reports, tax payers are not too happy with this news. Rightfully so as Model X vehicles do not run cheap these days. Pricing starts at over $100,000 Canadian for a Model X — remember, that’s just the base price and does not include the conversion costs to make it suited and booted.

That said, if your local police department equipped its fleet with a Tesla, would you be a bit irked? What say you, Spies?

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My guess is it's for publicity, to get better "optics" for taking a seat on the Green Bandwagon.

There are far more cost-effective, and effective ICE vehicles for the job. Remember in Ontario, only the southern end gets NY-like weather. The further you go north, the colder the winters get. And EV batteries deliver far less service as they get colder.

What do you expect from the most incompetent, indebted ($311 Billion) sub-government in the world? These are the same assholes whom were "going to make green energy work" even though it failed in Germany, Spain and everywhere else and Ontar-we-owe went from the cheapest electricity in North America to the most expensive in 14 years. No wonder all our big factories are closing shop and moving south of the border...

We pay 85 cents a Kilowatt hour to solar electricity producers and sell it for 14 cents to the grid or pay US states to take our excess capacity. We are refurbishing 2 nuclear plants at a cost of $27 Billion which will cost us 18.9 cents a kilowatt for electricity when we could of bought "clean & green" hydro electricity from Quebec for 5.3 cents a KW/H or 1/4 the cost.

These are the same asshole Liberals whom wasted 8 Billion on making our health records digital and they still DON'T have a working model 10 years later. One of many Billion dollar boondoggles from the most incompetent and corrupt governments ever so who gives a shit about a $100K Tesla cop car when you have clowns running the shop.

I guess it is asking too much for Spies readers to find an article that was the source for the FB post link. This is a show special only. Not being tested by the OPP and not being considered for use by the OPP at this time. Model X in question was lent to the OPP for this purpose by a connection. It is not their property. Just a look into the future and what a police pursuit vehicle could be like one day...

It would be my educated guess this is more about a pro-police messaging strategy coupled with youth outreach in mind. Policing is cool and maybe you could join the force one day. No different that a US Army or Navy themed vehicle at an American auto show. Similar to having the police with marchers or a float in fall themed or Santa Clause Parade. Certainly much better than having a military parade down the Washington Mall to appease your President's ego.

No @jeffgall. The egomaniac that is your President wants to feed his huge ego seeing tanks, trucks, canons and other weapons of war roll on by and make himself feel self-important despite his 5 deferments. This sort of display is un-American and has been deemed so by senior people in the Us Gov't who are quite concerned about this request from Trump. It will go nowhere.

@jeffgall, Alt-Left people like COMMUNISTCOMMENTS hate the military because they are so emasculated by radical feminism and protecting people is a traditionally male trait. You have to forgive him. The mother of his president slept with everyone and was a coke head.

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